{"id":2448783,"date":"2019-09-16T10:57:11","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=885000"},"modified":"2019-09-16T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:57:11","slug":"see-princess-nokia-crash-a-beauty-pageant-in-sugar-honey-iced-tea-s-h-i-t-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-princess-nokia-crash-a-beauty-pageant-in-sugar-honey-iced-tea-s-h-i-t-video\/","title":{"rendered":"See Princess Nokia Crash a Beauty Pageant in \u2018Sugar Honey Iced Tea (S.H.I.T.)\u2019 Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Screen-Shot-2019-09-16-at-11.22.17-AM-e1568650430405.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>New York City rapper and singer-songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/princess-nokia\/\" id=\"auto-tag_princess-nokia\" data-tag=\"princess-nokia\">Princess Nokia<\/a> brings chaos to the pageant world in her new video for \u201cSugar Honey Iced Tea (S.H.I.T.).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although the title recalls Kelis\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/track\/6HjzGcCtnFNfzA3N1ftR2v?si=cYJKzMwdTAatwPeChLYVMw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">swooning love funk<\/a> from 2003, Nokia\u2019s taunting swagger reveals a different agenda: dunking on her haters. \u201cSugar honey iced tea\/these bitches don\u2019t like me,\u201d spits Nokia over finger snaps, horns and the soaring runs of a gospel choir. \u201cI got the juice, I got the Hi-C\/No you can\u2019t unlike me,\u201d she boasts. \u201cYou got some time on your hands\/\u2019Cause all the time you be hating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Emma Westenberg (Janelle Monae, Troye Sivan), the new video follows Nokia and fellow rapper Maliibu Miitch as they go through the motions of competing in the \u201cMiss S.H.I.T. 2020\u201d beauty pageant. Yet in Nokiaworld \u2014 the inverse of a society in which European features are valued as the pinnacle of beauty \u2014 all but one of the competitors are women of color. Nokia enters the room popping blue bubblegum in an all-leather biker fit, and closes the video as the Virgin Mary reincarnate, adorned with gems and frosty blue chiffon. As her final act, she passes on her winners\u2019 crown, and figurative torch, to a young black girl in the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Princess Nokia\u2019s new single comes a year after her 2018 mixtape, <em>A Girl Cried Red<\/em>, which served as her feminist answer to the male-dominated realm of emo rap. In 2017, following the release of her debut studio album <em>1992<\/em>, she was named one of <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-lists\/10-new-artists-you-need-to-know-october-2017-201356\/princess-nokia-2-201785\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Artists You Need to Know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/princess-nokia-sugar-honey-iced-tea-video-885000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York City rapper and singer-songwriter Princess Nokia brings chaos to the pageant world in her new video for \u201cSugar Honey Iced Tea (S.H.I.T.).\u201d Although the title recalls Kelis\u2019 swooning love funk from 2003, Nokia\u2019s taunting swagger reveals a different agenda: dunking on her haters. \u201cSugar honey iced tea\/these bitches don\u2019t like me,\u201d spits Nokia [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2448783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 21:34:48","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2448783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2448783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2448783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2448783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2448783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}